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| [Dunnottar Castle continued] | [continued from page 54] "Castle in March 1336, and by a mandate ordered him to make choice of the three carpenters, three masons, and two Smiths, and one hundred archers with a supply of arms, and to proceed without delay to the fortress. (Westminster 23rd. March 1336) Edward on the 20th. April, issued his mandate to John de Norwico Admiral of his fleet in the north, to provide Roscelyn with three Ships, for conveying these supplies along with his family to Dunnottar. (Guildford 20th. April.) (Rotuli Scotiæ P. [Page] 411. 416. - Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen Vol. [Volume] I. P. [Page] 26) "When the Rebels in England had triumphed over the best of men and justest of King's Charles I, and those that persisted in their loyalty to him, in those lamentable times of confusion the Regalia or Honours of Scotland were delivered to the custody of the Earl Marischal, and were lodged in the strong castle of Dunnotter, withing the Shyre of Mearns as a place of greatest security and distance from the Enemie. This was done by order of the Scottish Parliament which sat for the last time on the 6th. of June 1651. Edinburgh Castle and all the strong holds south of the Forth were then in the hands of Cromwells forces. The commission signed Marischal is dated the eigth day of July 1651. The Earl accompanied Charles II to England and was engaged in the disastrous battle of Worcester. Having been captured at Elliot he was carried to London and imprisoned in the Tower. Oglivie of Barras being thus left sole keeper of the Honours and governor of the said castle which he found not sufficently provided with men, ammunition and other provisions to hold out against a long Siege as the King had ordered. Ogilvie was first summoned to surrender by the Cromwellian General Overton on the 8th. November 1651, again by Colonel Dutton 22nd. Novr. [November], and General Lambert 3rd. January 1652 who offered him the most honourable terms. At length the governor received a letter from the Earl Marischal dated May 4th. 1652 stating that he had resolved to put his fortons, person, houses and all freely into the hands of the Lord General and Council of State that he might peaceably enjoy what belonged to him under the favor and protection of the Commonwealth of England, and requiring him to deliver up 'his hous of Dunnotter to Major Generall Deane'. Proceeding apparently on this letter as well as the advice of the Earl Marischal friends, the governor entered into a [continued on page 56] |
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[page] 55Parish of Dunnottar.
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